Watch the Strange Intelligence of Slime Mold in This 'Slime Lapse' Video

Slime molds have baffled scientists since their discovery. The single celled organism seems to possess an intelligence that guides it towards food in a way that almost purposeful, as it creeps across the decaying trees and leaves on which it lives.

This eeriness is particularly visual in time lapse photography, where the horror movie-like crawl of the slime mold happens instantaneously.

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